Quick flyby -- I'll comment more later when I'm not pressed for time, and I am still loving this --
You wrote: I would say that Shatner, as often as he goes pointlessly shirtless, is giving up just as much eye-candy to the ladies as the Ladies of the Hour do for the men. Hubba.
I'm pretty sure I've seen interviews or the like where people were commenting on Gene Roddenbury saying stuff like, "how can we get Bill shirtless in this episode?" He was so intentionally the lady-bait. X3
What a doctor it would've made. My son, the doctor. Kind of gets you right there, doesn't it?
And then they put his son, Dr. David Marcus, in the movies...
I always found it interesting that in "I, Mudd", it's Spock who uses the "I love you/I hate you" routine to befuddle the Alices. He's so hilariously matter-of-fact about it, too.
It's a diplomatic tool, not a seduction tactic...unless Kirk wants a three-way with Sarek and Gav? Oh, man, now Spock's really horrified.
XD Well, Kirk did really connect with that other pointy-eared character Mark Lenard played...
Re: Dr. Janet Wallace (and hey, why not tally how many of Kirk's exes have doctorates in the sciences at the end of these? It feeds the K/S slash, because it proves he likes smart people.) I've seen people try to defend her, and I don't understand why they think they should. Yes, she chose her career over love and she says it was a painful choice, but a) what she actually did was dump him for someone who could advance her career, which is pretty heartless, and b) she seems
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Just dropping by to say these are great! I'm all about plot, so I miss some of the good stuff you catch here. This is feeding my slash engines, you enabler you. Thanks ; )
I completely love this meta! I'm commenting right at the very start of reading this part, which is probably a bad idea as I'm sure I'll think of other things to say, but I just wanted to comment on this bit
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That was always my reading as well. As the essay says, the dialog is really out of place in the 23rd century. But, in the context of the late 1960s, it was an indication of sudden awareness of the absurdity of thoughtless assumptions.
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I would say that Shatner, as often as he goes pointlessly shirtless, is giving up just as much eye-candy to the ladies as the Ladies of the Hour do for the men. Hubba.
I'm pretty sure I've seen interviews or the like where people were commenting on Gene Roddenbury saying stuff like, "how can we get Bill shirtless in this episode?" He was so intentionally the lady-bait. X3
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And then they put his son, Dr. David Marcus, in the movies...
I always found it interesting that in "I, Mudd", it's Spock who uses the "I love you/I hate you" routine to befuddle the Alices. He's so hilariously matter-of-fact about it, too.
It's a diplomatic tool, not a seduction tactic...unless Kirk wants a three-way with Sarek and Gav? Oh, man, now Spock's really horrified.
XD Well, Kirk did really connect with that other pointy-eared character Mark Lenard played...
Re: Dr. Janet Wallace (and hey, why not tally how many of Kirk's exes have doctorates in the sciences at the end of these? It feeds the K/S slash, because it proves he likes smart people.) I've seen people try to defend her, and I don't understand why they think they should. Yes, she chose her career over love and she says it was a painful choice, but a) what she actually did was dump him for someone who could advance her career, which is pretty heartless, and b) she seems ( ... )
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That was always my reading as well. As the essay says, the dialog is really out of place in the 23rd century. But, in the context of the late 1960s, it was an indication of sudden awareness of the absurdity of thoughtless assumptions.
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